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San Francisco, California, United States

Collaborated on candidate solution designs and feasibility with enterprise technical architects and data engineers for Wells Fargo Bank enterprise marketing system. Long term engagement with Wells Fargo involved conducting vendor assessments and evaluation of proposed solutions cost effectiveness and feasibility. My role as a Solution Architect and Senior Business Analyst included facilitating requirements gathering, process modeling, data mapping and working as a liason between the executives in various business lines and enterprise technical architects to arrive at an optimal, cost effective and future-proof solution.

Mt. Shasta, Ca

Partner/Founder of consultancy providing expertise in software engineering best practices: Requirements Engineering, Solution Architecture, SDLC process (Agile/Scrum). Focus on designing optimal Agile process and tooling to enable risk management, control and predictability while adhering to Agile principles.Liaised between core business users, hardware and software engineers, analysts and QA to achieve consistent vision and managed, incremental deliverables during system development. Co-founder of professional services firm, and held key roles as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Program/Product Manager for commercial projects with Barclay's, BlackRock, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Moody's Analytics and CalPERS.August 2017 - present: Current projects underway with Wells Fargo Bank. Delivered comprehensive business requirements documentation for Wells Fargo Credit Card division. Currently working with marketing group in systems analysis of marketing technology platforms.www.expershare.com

San Francisco Ca

Program Manager/Scrum Master overseeing multiple teams involved in development and support of global regulatory stress testing platform. Facilitated multiple teams in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint deliverable demos, and retrospectives. Removed impediments for the teams. Scrum Master role for multiple development teams, tracking team metrics, user story development, backlog grooming, sizing and prioritization. Leveraged Rally for story development and metrics generation and Confluence for Wiki based retrospectives and team documentation. Coordination of business (product owner) and IT (DevOps) teams in analysis/specification and validation of scope, requirements, test scripts, technical and regulatory, UI wireframes, process models and technical design artifacts. Developed training materials for story decomposition and grooming breaking down stories into concise, testable chunks appropriately sized for the sprint. Consulted in best practices for User Story Decomposition, Splitting Stories and Value Stream Analysis interfacing with product teams.

San Francisco, Ca

I led the business requirements analysis and technical specifications for BlackRock's global portfolio construction & management platform. Implemented Agile best practices (sprint planning, story grooming, continuous testing, retrospectives), removed road blocks and juggled conflicting priorities to expedite product launch, sprint releases for system enhancements and production releases. The system included complex underlying business logic, and required detailed, verifiable models that satisfied global requirements for all market exchanges, currencies and investment instruments. Specific responsibilities included working with business SMEs, QA, software architects, programmers, and others across the IT spectrum for delivering requirements analysis, definition, documentation and managing the end-to-end development lifecycle.

San Francisco Bay Area

Initiated business analysis, requirements and modeling for a global portfolio management system. Documented and implemented a formal requirements management plan, resulting in successful beta and early launch of the system into production use.

U.S., Germany

Various leadership roles with Agilent's telecommunications, life sciences and test & measurement groups.* Managed an international team of 5 business analysts in component architecture re-design initiative for the test equipment division in Germany, applying methods of unified process, iterative and use case-driven development, improving efficiency level to a high performing team with 80% productivity and quality gains.* Implemented risk mitigation with requirements management infrastructure (IBM/Rational tools), enabling an optimal working environment across geographies and time zones.

San Francisco, Ca

Lent consulting expertise in software engineering best practices, in particular requirements engineering, use case specification, and requirements change management for Wells online banking.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed the Object Oriented Practice for a global web development firm. Responsible for all aspects of business plan development and execution, training and practice development, as well as a leadership role in OO projects. Key role in formulation and deployment of OO development standards for CBSI globally, and successful launch and growth of the OO Practice.

San Francisco Bay Area

Co-founded KPMG’s Object Oriented Practice during startup, including successful business planning, rollout and growth of the Practice. Led successful delivery of a large system for a major financial services client, as well as point expertise/mentoring on OO analysis/design methods for a number of national engagements with major clients.

Greater Boston Area

Co-founded CSC Object Technology practice, growing revenues from zero to over $3 million in first year of operation. Facilitated the adoption of industry best practice OO analysis/design techniques throughout CSC. Built and published OO extensions to CSC’s proprietary client/server development methodology. Contributed expertise to numerous projects throughout the U.S., in the role of OO mentor, consultant and subject matter expert.

B.A., Anthropology & Asian Studies

Bachelor Of Arts, Anthropology And Asian Studies